Real Madrid player Carlos Casemiro responded to the Liverpool playmaker, Mohamed Salah, who said that he still dreams of facing the Spanish team, due to the injury he suffered during the Champions League final that brought them together in 2018.
Salah had expressed a desire to meet the Royal Club in the final of the same European championship for the current season, and wrote on Twitter: “We have a result to settle it” in a challenge to Real before its match once morest Manchester City in the Champions League semi-final second leg.
We have a score to settle. pic.twitter.com/MWxfhIIW78
— Mohamed Salah (@MoSalah) May 4, 2022
And the meeting between Real Madrid and Manchester City ended dramatically in favor of Karim Benzema’s colleagues, following they managed to restore the balance in their favor at the last moments, once morest the comrades of Algerian Riyad Mahrez.
The match, which took place on Wednesday, at the Santiago Bernabeu, ended with Real Madrid winning 3-1 in extra time.
It is the sixth failure of City in six seasons under the supervision of coach, Pep Guardiola, who was cursed by the competition that he imposed his control over years ago.
— Media (@RMINFO_Media) May 5, 2022
Casemiro said in a television interview in response to Salah’s desire: “Everyone can choose what he wants,” then continued, explaining Salah’s ambition to face Real by saying, “Maybe that is because of his previous injury.”
Salah, 29, was injured in the 2018 final when former Real defender Sergio Ramos knocked him to the ground, preventing him from completing the match and missing the first two matches for Egypt in the World Cup in Russia.
On Tuesday, Liverpool qualified for the Champions League final for this season, at the expense of its Spanish host, Villarreal, in the second leg of the semi-final, with a score of 3 goals to two goals.
And whether he wanted revenge, Salah, who reached the Champions League final for the third time following 2018 and 2019 when he won the title, told BT, “Because we lost the final, I would like to face them once more and hope to beat them.”
The meeting between Liverpool and Real Madrid in the Champions League final will be held on May 28 at Saint-Denis Stadium in France.
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